Category: Jean Ziegler

Mother of all rogues' galleries Hillel Neuer: Even within the rogues' gallery that is the U.N. human rights Council, today’s council panel attacking Western democracies for imposing sanctions on dictatorships was the mother of all rogues' galleries. The panelists: 1. Lead panelist was UN expert …

When the democratic opposition takes over in Venezuela, the first thing they should do at the UN is take action to remove Jean Ziegler, a long-time propagandist of the Chavez and Maduro regimes, from the UN Human Rights Council, where he sits as a member of its advisory committee, and previously as expert on the …

Honoring Qaddafi Agent: In March, the U.N. Human Rights Council opening session gave a position of honor to its Advisory Committee member Jean Ziegler, co-founder and 2002 recipient of the “Muammar Qaddafi Human Rights Prize.” Two weeks later, Eric Tistounet, a top official of the U.N. High …

\Jean Ziegler, co-founder and 2002 winner of the Muammar Qaddafi Human Rights Prize, is the Western Group’s sole candidate to be a UN human rights expert. GENEVA, Sept. 21, 2016 — Switzerland has just nominated a notorious apologist for dictators and rapists including Muammar Qaddafi as the Western …

On the 10th anniversary of the PLO-requested World Court advisory opinion that declared Israel’s security barrier illegal, and which declared that Israel could not invoke the right of self-defense, it’s worth recalling one of the opinion’s most underreported flaws: its reliance on the …

A workshop took place at the United Nations office in Geneva today on the so-called “unilateral coercive measures.” In UN-lingo this means Cuba’s efforts to attack the US and its embargo, under the guise of human rights. So no wonder that today’s proceedings were marred by extreme …